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water-on-moon

Using data from NASA’s Moon Mineralogy Mapper, scientists were able to remotely discover that magmatic water (water that exists deep within the interior of the Moon) is present.

spiral-in-air

An image of the the Antlia constellation, also known as “The Air Pump” because of its distinctive spiral structure.

tma-08m

The Soyuz TMA-08M spacecraft on its way back to Earth. It landed in a desert in a remote part of Kazakhstan on September 11, 2013.

saturn-rings

This photo of Saturn’s rings is courtesy of NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, even though it was more than 650,000 miles away.

vintage-earth-moon-nasa

This vintage photo was taken on July 20, 1969 from Apollo 11.

hot-fire-test

What does it take to power NASA’s self-proclaimed “most
powerful rocket in the world with the greatest capacity of any launch system ever built”? Four 200-foot-tall engines like the one here, currently undergoing a “hot-fire test.”

iss-sign

It’s not often you see a sign like this when you’re driving down the street.

orbital-sciences

The Orbital Sciences Antares rocket getting prepared for takeoff.

antares-rocket

The Orbital Sciences Antares rocket, carrying 1300 pounds of food, clothing, and other cargo, launching from Pad-0A at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport.

caribbean-iss

Picture of the Caribbean as seen from the International Space Station on February 13, 2013.

coma-cluster

From the Chandra X-ray Observatory — the Coma cluster is one of the largest structures in the universe held together by gravity.

ultraviolet-sun

Charged particles spiraling around magnetic field lines on the sun result in a “loop” effect. This picture comes from the Solar Dynamics Observatory.

soyuz

Launch photo of the Soyuz rocket lifting off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

glow-with-flow

What happens when you spray fluorescent oil on a futuristic aircraft model and put in in a subsonic wind tunnel? You get a very cool-looking NASA test to determine the flow patterns of air.

cygnus

The cargo spacecraft from Orbital Sciences arrives at the International Space Station on September 18, 2013.